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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Athletic Club will hold its annual open indoor spring meeting at the Winslow Roller Skating Rink, Clarendon St., Saturday, March 7, at 2 p. m. The events to be contested are the standing high jump, running high jump, putting the shot (16 Ibs.), pole vault, single stick, tug-of-war (600 Ibs. limit), fifty yards dash, one mile run, one mile walk, fifty yard hurdle. These events are open to members...
...especial interest to Harvard men is the New England Magazine for March, for the leading article of the number is "Harvard College during the War of the Rebellion" by Captain Nathan Appleton. Captain Appleton was of the class of '63, and his description of the state of affairs at Harvard at the breaking out of the war, when all the '63 men were Sophomores, "in the full tide of sumptuousness and just at the age to enjoy the excitements of the occasion," -is vivid in the extreme. He tells of the political excitement which permeated the men in the fall...
Bowdoin, Bates, and Colby Universities have joined for a tug-of-war match to be held at Brunswick, Me., on the 24th of March...
Since, however, the Intercollegiate Association has decided to retain the tug-of-war, but one thing remains for Harvard to do. She must set to work and train the best team possible for the Mott Haven games. Captain Moen has not yet decided exactly how he will go to work; but he has the one idea that we must send a strong team to the intercollegiate games...
That such a team is now an impossibility at Harvard is an utterly false idea. As the records show, Harvard won the tug-of-war for many years in succession. What caused the loss of the event to us has been a gradual decline in interest, owing to the growing feeling against the sport. It is only necessary to renew this interest to gain our former prowess. It is very true that at present, after a year with no University tug-of-war team, the outlook is not encouraging. In our numbers, however, we have a great advantage. Hard work...